Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Gamal Abdel Nasser, no longer talking about "a role wandering the Arab world looking for a hero," last week issued a conciliatory statement designed to show that he 1) is not a Russian pawn, 2) is willing to respect international law (though he did not mention the Suez Canal) and 3) has no ambitions to dominate an Arab empire. Excerpts...
Egypt, like all other nations, has a special fellow feeling for those nations which share its cultural traditions and for those ex-colonial nations which are in a similar phase of transition to independent democracy and economic progress. But the idea of trying to create an Arab empire or of attempting to dominate such an empire is repugnant to Egypt...
...first U.N. forces marched in. Yelling "British Go Home" and "Long Live Nasser," nearly 20,000 pajama-clad Egyptians crowded onto the streets and pressed against British troops standing with bayonets drawn. A few Britons jabbed out with rifle butts, but the only shooting took place in the Arab quarter, where a jeepload of French, caught in a crowd, fired, killing two boys aged twelve and 14. Cairo newspapers boasted that Egyptian irregulars in Port Said had "spread panic among the enemy troops...
...while Washington is worried about Syria, it discounts some of the more exaggerated Anglo-French talk of Soviet take-over in Syria. It also disputes the talk of a complete collapse of Arab responsibility in the Middle East. In fact, last week there were promising signs of an Arab awareness of their own problems...
...tiny Lebanon, most prosperous of Arab countries, a wave of bombings shook Beirut in protest of President Camille Chamoun's refusal to break relations with Britain and France. The army and police occupied key points in the capital, arrested 200, reportedly found dynamite in the Egyptian commercial attaché's car, and charged that the Egyptian assistant military attaché had been involved in a plot against President Chamoun. A new pro-American government was formed under Sami el Solh. His Foreign Minister was a familiar and friendly face, Charles ("the good") Malik...